The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-05
Further Particulars.


TWIN, o., January AT 2 o'clock
This morning the west bound fast train
known as the Erie express, on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, collided
with freight train ono mile west Of
Republic. The express does not make
n stop at the town Of Republic, viii
lage 81 900 inhab tants nine miles west
Of this city, and it Ia supposed was
running a. q speed OF not less than
sixty miles an hour. The freight, east
ward bound, bad expected to mske a
siding At Republic, and was probably
making q rsts Of speed not less than
twenty milas per hour, and thus rum
ming in opposite directions on the
same track
oAUsED A TELESCOPE Az CLEAN CUT
and disastrous az has ever been wit.
messed in this section OF The country.
The engines we're run into each other
as one stovepipe fits into lie mate, and
all that could be seen was one gigantic
mass Of brass, iron and steel. At an
early hour there we're hundreds OF
people coming to the scene OF the dis
rs er, ready and anxious to do what
they could for any OF the unfortun ate
suherers who might need help, but IL
appeared that just as soon az the Bal
umore and OHIO agents could get to
the place whore the wreck occurred,
Isr some reason they were behooved TO
hastily carry out OF the debris the
wounded, dying and dead. Your cor.
espondent was only permitted to see
iour persons that had escaped the
awful holocaust, in which u is believed
that there were at least twenty
three bodies burned into sickening,
crispY mai of flseh aud bones beyond
all possible recognition. From the re-
port OF a survivor it would appear that
a number OF the unfortunates were
not only swallowed up in the wrath of
she awful fiery furnace, bat that their
bodice wers 30 perfectly incineratad
that their ashes could not be gathered
from the debris.
TIKI SIGHT WAS sIcKKNINa
and most forbiddins 10 witness IL
mas been reported that the engineers
on this rad have been overworked;
that 1t has been u matter of necessity
Tor those on duty b make use OF some
expedient to keep them awake, and in
dong this the engineer OF the freight
train made choice OF liquor. We can
not vouch for the report, but the
blame rests somewhere, and there
should BIZ instituted at once thor
ouRh investigation, which we doubt
not will be done through the medium
OF the inquest to be held ~ Coroner
Topper. Those who were saved from |
the wreck remaining In the Republic |
were a mother with threo little ones
hardly out OF their swaddling clothes.
the husband and father of the childlen |
with two cons having been
DAvoURzD By THE wRATHPUL FLAMES
of the burning cara. In some wsv
that even this mother was unable 10 |
relate she got out Of the Car in which
she had b9ep travelling and wand 3rinR
away from the burning train, carrying
hsr two youngest childron in her arms.
entered the first house in which aha
iouhd light. She was almost orased
with lear and with Cliff 'ulty il was as.
Ceriained that her name wgs Mra.
Mary Postlethwaite. The family yere
on their way 10 Missouri, and expeot.
ed TO hnd a home in Ohillicothe, of
that State. They have been living
near the town OF Bolton, We,ssl ooun.
". w. Va Har husband, William
POstltthwaite, 81 years Of aga, and
the sons killed with him, were aged
ID and II years.
The agents of the Baltimore and
Ohio endeavored 10 take cara of the
mother snd children by sending them
TO Chicago Junction, whore the COM
pany hRvea hotel. Ga advics, how.
ever, OF her friends, who were tels.
she consented TO remain in
Republic, until she should hear from
her son, who remained in West Vir.
ginia. IL was pititul sight TO see the
poor woman, now breaking forth In
the waiting tones of her GWfal glief
aud sthen to see her little boy, not
over 4 years Of age, endeagorins TO
comfort her with the words, 90.
don't Cryl
DON'T cay, MAMMA; I'll GIT PAFApl
title realizing the terrible and almost
lssperate g,iei of bis anguish stricken
and deeolste mammG.
PosthleWaite had on his person $500
n money, drsft for $500, a govern
nen, ehsck for SIS aad q note Of $3.50.
besides iiCkets aud MONEY for imms.
lia.e use. With one awful stroke all